What if Clinton had been the President for the last 4 years?

[ck4829]

Let's say everything that has happened under Bush happened under Clinton instead.

Would Richard Mellon Scaife, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Joe Farah, Paul Weyrich, and all of their friends be having a fit when the things that happened under Bush happened under Clinton instead?

What would the RW do if Clinton had been President when 9/11 happened?

What would the RW do if Clinton had been President when someone in the Administration released the name of Valerie Plame, a CIA Agent?

What would the RW do if Clinton had caused a record deficit?

What would the RW do if Clinton had led us on a war with faulty intelligence? Would they be screaming that he is 'wagging the dog' again?

What would the RW do if Clinton had declared a war on terror? Would the RW say we must respect the Commander-in-Chief because we are in a time of war?

I know Clinton would never do or allow things such as this, but if he did, he wouldn't get my vote.

I invite everybody, Liberal and Conservative, to ponder these questions.

[kostya]

1. 9/11 wouldn't have happened. Period, end of story.

[chomskysright]

4. exactly fucking right

[yellowdogintexas]

9. aha, someone else who believes that! I have said all along

that 9/11 happened when it did because Shrub was in the White House

[mogster]

11. Perhaps you're right

Things are adding up.

Digress:
I noted R.M. Scaife was mentioned, and did a google on his name.
Seen this? It's a CNN-newspiece from 1998.

Who Is Richard Mellon Scaife?
He's very rich and very partisan, but is he behind an anti-Clinton conspiracy?
http://edition.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/04/27/scaife.profile/

Note the pre-911 tone and angle of this CNN article, how eager the journalists seem to be to get at him.

I could almost mistake this for critical journalism.

[WI_DEM]

2. better yet, What if Gore had been?

since he was actually elected.

[chomskysright]

5. again, no fucking 911

[zbdent]

13. I've often pointed out that there would have been no terrorist attacks

on the US in Sept 2001 if Gore was installed as pres on 12/12/2000.

That would be because OBL would have been laughing his ass off watching Fox News covering the Civil War II going on as the Religious Reich and the NRA and the freepers and the Repukes take over the country to "right the horrendous wrong" of a Gore presidency.

Gore attaining the Presidency would have been the final signal to the Reich's forces to call for an overthrow of the government. I mean, you saw the forces at play in Miami, right? They were flown in and got access to the building in a way that no Dem would have had. Did you see a black person in that famous hallway protest picture?

[liberal N proud]

3. If Clinton was President the last 4 years

There would not be an Iraq war
9/11 may not have happened
The budget would be balanced

And the RW would still be attacking Clinton for breathing.

[BlueOhio]

6. If Clinton was president,

I'd probably still have a job and not be on the verge of homelessness.

[hoosierblue]

7. I wouldn't be crying every day over the loss of this election.

Gawd, I miss that Bill.

[RobertSeattle]

8. Clinton would have loved to have been a wartime president

ala FDR, but 1993 - 2001 wasn't his time. But he would have only gone to war for good reasons, not to show his P*nis is bigger than his Daddies.

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

10. If 9/11 had happened under Gore...

(On edit: and I seriously doubt it would have)

...even if just the hijackings went off and the planes were shot down without further loss of life, then the same people who told everyone to rally around Great Leader Dubya in America's time of crisis would have called for, and gotten, Al Gore's head and testicles on a platter.

The New GOP: Responsibility is for losers.

[OneTwentyoNine]

12. Halliburton would be out $10.4 BILLION....

They'd have to make money to pay off their asbestos lawsuit the old fashion way instead of raping taxpayers.

[Sara Beverley]

14. The Congress would have opposed the invasion of Iraq.

All his corporate buddies would be in jail and new impeachment would be under way AND THE WORLD WOULD TRULY BE A SAFER PLACE THAN IT IS NOW!

[PROGRESSIVE1]

15. 9/11 would NEVER had happened!

LIHOP

[kostya]

16. Clinton (or Gore) would have listened to Clarke, because

they were genuinely concerned about terrorism and had a track record of stopping it before. They were not totally (somewhat of course) distracted by an ideological agenda to the point of ignoring friggin' headlines about Osama Determined to Attack United States. Criminy! BushCo only saw 9/11 as their Golden Opportunity. It is always the same with these assholes. They take whatever political issue they think has traction and twist it to their own original plans. Sick, sick, sick. - K

[AntiLempa]

17. CAFTA

If Clinton had been president for the past for years we would have CAFTA, and expansion of the WTO, more deaths to the Iraqi Sanctions (if not a different version of the Iraq War), a coup d'etat in Haiti. . .wait, that did happen!